And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over.“ As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours, ” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time, ” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.”“ Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me.“ I’m sorry, ” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world.“ Welcome, ” says the Mayor, ” to the New Prentisstown. Patrick Ness
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.
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C. Joybell C.
Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.
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Sarah Ockler
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
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Cassandra Clare
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.
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Alexandra Adornetto
You get use to someone–start to like them, even–and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
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Rachel Ward
More Quotes By Patrick Ness
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still- See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell...
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.
We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
People see stories everywhere... We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true... We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
